The CZW World Tag Team Championship was a professional wrestlingworld tag teamchampionship owned and copyrighted by the Combat Zone Wrestling (CZW) promotion; it is contested for in their tag team division. The championship was created and debuted on February 13, 1999 at CZW's Opening Night event.[1] Although the title is a world tag team championship, supposedly only intended for tag teams, a wrestler has held the championship by himself – Justice Pain.[1] He held the championship on his own from November 20, 1999 to January 8, 2000, when he lost it to Diablos Macabre and Midknight, who are known as The Thrill Kill Kult, the same team he defeated to win the championship.
The inaugural champions were Jon Dahmer and Jose Rivera, Jr., who were awarded the championship on February 13, 1999 at CZW's Opening Night event.[1] As of February2024, BLK-OUT which consist of Ruckus and Sabian/BLK Jeez hold the record for most reigns, with five.[1] Sabian holds the record for the most individual reigns with 9.[1] The Best Around's one reign is the longest in the title's history, at 392 days.[1] At less than one day, Dahmer and Rivera, Jr.'s only reign and 2 Girls, 1 Cup (Beef Wellington and Greg Excellent)'s first reign are tied for the shortest. Milk Chocolate (Randy Summers & Brandon Watts) are the current champions, winning at Limelight XX against CMD (Boom Harding & DeSean Pratt).
Title history
Key
No.
Overall reign number
Reign
Reign number for the specific team—reign numbers for the individuals are in parentheses, if different
The King Pinz defeated Extreme Fahrenheit (Heartbreaker and Mr. Motion) and Jon Dahmer and Middknight in a Three Way match to win the vacant championship.
This was contested in a Ultraviolent Insanity match against 4Loco (Alex Colon, Azreal, Bandido Jr., and Chrissy Rivera). Lucky 13 retrieved the titles for his team to win.
The United Wrestling Network and CZW returned the titles to The REP due to the controversial finish to the match at Trifecta Elimination 2019. After the incident, Gangone kept the title belts in his possession, and proclaimed himself as the sole Tag Team Champion.[9] At To Hell and Back 2019, The REP regained the belts, defeating Gangone and Homicide.
This was a four-way ladder match for the vacant titles also involving Milk Chocolate (Brandon Watts and Randy Summers), Post Game (Mike Walker and Vinny Talotta), and The REP (Dave McCall and Nate Carter).
1.^– It is unknown which day of the month the championship was vacated. The reign is thus marked as ending on the first day of November 1999.
2.^^– Each reign is ranked highest to lowest; reigns with the exact same number mean that they are tied for that certain rank.
↑ CZW ceased operations during the COVID pandemic, therefore the length of this reign is uncertain.
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